Identifier: rhineitssceneryh00hunt (find matches)
Title: The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Hunt, Frederick Knight, 1814-1854. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: London, J. How
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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where Njebuhrand Schlegel have taught, and the Prince Consort ofEngland, Prince Albert, received his education. Theantiquary will visit the Cathedral, founded by the motherof Constantine the Great, and will inspect the Museum ofRhenish antiquities. Every traveller may well followtheir example; but whether he does or not, he mustnot fail to see the view of the Rhine from the ramparts,or to make excursions round Bonn,never omitting a ramble to the valleyof the Ahr; and another to the Dra-chenfels. The scene from the rampartswas partially anticipated by the touristfrom the deck before Bonn was reached ;but it loses none of its interest by thatglance, which gives only a foretaste ofwhat the Traveller has be-M fore him. A walk through jjjlggjs the wood to the summit of the Kreutzberg is repaidby a charming prospect,including the outlines ofthe Sieben-gebergen —the Seven Mountains. These hills of lava andbasalt have their tale offaithlessness, jealousy, andrevenge. Stimulated by religious
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THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS. 133 zeal, the lord of a castle onthe Seven Mountains enlistedin the ranks of the Crusaders,and fought gallantly in the^ van of those who soughtW to place the cross upon thewalls of the Holy City.After long years of absencehe returned, to find that aneighbouring chieftain had in his absenceestranged from him the faith of his lady,who, to escape his wrath, fled to aconvent. The seducer escaped, and theinnocent evidence of infidelity was secretedfor many years from the sight of the injuredhusband. But he nursed his sense of woundedhonour, and in his old age meeting a youth nearb~ Godesburg in whom he recognised a likeness tohis wife, he questioned him, and finding that it wasthe boy he so long had sought, without pity forhis youth, he visited the sin of the mother upon heroffspring and slew him in the high road, on the spotwhere the Hocli Kreuz now stands—a monument whichtradition says was erected to hold the deed in memoryas a warning to weak wives and faithless f

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